Sentences with phrase «transcendent ethical norms»

In situations where clearly differentiated religious structures do not emerge, as in the Confucian case and in quite different ways the Jewish and Muslim as well, there is a strong sense that political authority is illegitimate as long as it does not conform to transcendent ethical norms, as in almost all empirical instances it does not.

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It raises ethical questions about norms in respect to the transcendent realm.